Suzette Brooks Masters

And there are some academic institutions, I'm thinking of Beth Novak,

I believe she's at Northeastern.

You know, she has like a social innovation lab and she works with Danielle Allen at Harvard.

And they're really trying to focus on how tech and civic engagement can empower local and state government to do their jobs better, to be responsive to the public.

And I think they're gaining some traction.

And then there was, on the visioning side of things, in a reddish place in the United States, which means more conservative in our color scheme, in Bowling Green, Kentucky, there are a bunch of visionaries thinking about the future of their area, which is

anticipated to grow very rapidly.

And they wanted to have a visioning process to determine how do we want to grow?

Like we know growth is going to happen.

How do we control it?

How do we make it the kind of growth that we want?

And so they engaged in a civic imagination process.

And then they used tech

and worked with all the different government partners to try to surface what do people want.

And they have a website called Bowling Green 2050, where they are sharing back the insights.

It's an experiment.

And I think the more governments get in on imagining the future with the public,

And then using the power of the state to make those visions come to life.

I think that is the beginning of what could be a much better process.

The combination of all of these things.